Mop head



May 18.; 1926.

J. A. HILTON MOP HEAD Filed May 27, 1925 Patented May 18, 1926.

UNI'ISED s'raras JAMES A. HILTON", F LYNGHIBURG, VIRGINIA.

MOP HEAD.

Application filed May 27, 1925. Serial No. 33,220.

This invention aims to provide a novel means whereby the swab of a mop may be assembled readily with a mop head, the construction being such that the swab may be renewed quickly upon occasion. Another object of the invention is to supply a mop head which may be fashioned cheaply out of two pieces of material, to wit, a metal plate and a rod or wire.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

Although a. preferred form has been depicted in the drawings, it is to be under stood that a mechanic, working within the scope of what is claimed, may make such changes as his skill may suggest, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, parts being broken'away; Figure 2 is an elevation wherein the device is viewed edgewise; Figure 3 is a section, in which the handle has been left in elevation.

The device which forms the subject matter of this application is a mop head comprising a metal body 1, in' the form of a plate, having converging edges 2 defining a reduced neck, the constituent material of the body being turned over, along the edges 2, to form reinforcing beads 3. At its lower end, the body 1 is bent upon itself along transverse lines to fashion diverging doublewalled flanges 4t and 5 defining a troughshaped seat '0. The flange 5 is cut through transversely along a line marked by the nuineral 7 in Figure 1, and a portion of the material which, if left in place, would form part of the inner layer of the flange 5, is turned up into approximate parallelism. with the body 1, to make a keeper 8. In that portion of the body 1 which is remote from the keeper 8 there is an opening 9. The body 1 is slit transversely, as at 10, to form straps 11, the straps, and the material 12 above the uppermost strap being distorted laterally to produce a socket in which the mop handle 1 1 may be mounted detachably but securely. The part of the body 1 which is below the lowermost strap forms an abutment 15 for the handle 14, as disclosed in Figure 3.

The jaw 16 may be made out of a rod or 5 wire having some resiliency. At one end, the jaw 16 is curved as at 17 to form an overhanging pivot element or eye 18 passing through the opening 9 in the body 1. The free end of the jaw 16 is given an approximately sigmoidal outline to produce an overhanging latch 19 and a loop-shaped finger piece 20 disposed on the opposite side of the latch 19 from the jaw 16.

The operation of the device is simple. When the jaw 16 is manipulated by means of the finger piece 20, the latch 19 may be engaged with the keeper 8, that is, be dis posed between the keeper and the adjacent portion of the body 1 and, with equal facility, the latch may be disengaged from the keeper, the jaw 16 swinging on its pivotal mounting 918 to permit the removal and replacement of the swab 21, the jaw 16 holding the folded portion of the swab in the trough-shaped seat 6. The resiliency of the jaw 16 permits the latch 19 to be engaged with the keeper 8 after the swab is in place, and also aids in retaining the swab inthe seat 6.

I claim In a device of the class described, a platelike body having upwardly converging edges, the body being folded upon itself, at its lower end, to form double-walled flanges defining a trough-shaped seat, the outer wall of one flange being slit transversely, and the material thus freed being formed into a. keeper which extends along one side of the body; and a aw cooperating with the seat, one end of the jaw being pivoted to the body, the other end of the jaw being fashioned into an overhanging latch, the latch being engaged between the keeper and said side of the body, the latch being continued to form a finger-piece extended beyond one of said converging edges of the body.

In testimonythat I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my sig 100 nature.

JAMES A. HILTON. 

